Category «Libraries»

Cloud-sourcing Research Collections: Managing Print in the Mass-digitized Library Environment

Cloud-sourcing Research Collections: Managing Print in the Mass-digitized Library Environment, Constance Malpas, Program Officer OCLC Research, January 2011 “Analysis of the distribution of subject matter and library holdings represented in the HathiTrust Digital Library and shared print repositories further confirmed that the digital corpus is largely representative of the collective academic library collection, suggesting a …

Subjects: Knowledge Management, Libraries

New on LLRX.com: Basic Search Set-up in "Out of the Box" SharePoint

Via LLRX.com – Basic Search Set-up in “Out of the Box” SharePoint: IT Librarian and SharePoint expert Lorette Weldon provides guidance on requisite questions for staff and other users to ask for content in Microsoft SharePoint out of the box (OOTB). The research requires you to ask the four “W”‘s: What; Who; Where; When. What …

Subjects: E-Records, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

Bibliotheca Alexandrina, A Symbol for the New Egypt

WSJ: Looking like a massive computer chip or the disc of the sun rising up from the Mediterranean coast, the hypermodern successor to the ancient library of Alexandria stands out as a beacon of hope, efficiency and enlightenment among the crumbling buildings of Egypt’s second-largest city…In less than 10 years of operation, the library has …

Subjects: Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Libraries

PACER, RECAP, and the Movement to Free American Case Law

PACER, RECAP, and the Movement to Free American Case Law, by Steve Schultze, VoxPopuLII, LII/Legal Information Institute, Cornell University Law School (February 3, 2011), via freegovinfo.info: “…The ultimate solution to the PACER {Public Access to Court Electronic Records) fee problem unfortunately lies…in bureaucratic details of authorization subcommittees and technical details of network architecture. This is …

Subjects: E-Government, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research, Libraries

New on LLRX.com – The Risky Business of Information Sharing: Why You Need to Care About Copyright

The Risky Business of Information Sharing: Why You Need to Care About Copyright: Copyright is an essential tool in the spread of new ideas, and the workplace has become ground zero for infringement. Ask employees up and down the corporate hierarchy, and they’ll tell you that whisking information electronically to co-workers is integral to their …

Subjects: Copyright, E-Records, Intellectual Property, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

OCLC – Perceptions of Libraries, 2010: Context and Community

“OCLC’s newest membership report, Perceptions of Libraries, 2010, a sequel to the 2005 Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources, is now available. The new report provides updated information and new insights into information consumers and their online habits, preferences, and perceptions. Particular attention was paid to how the current economic downturn has affected the information-seeking …

Subjects: Knowledge Management, Libraries

Classification of the End-of-Term Archive: Extending Collection Development Practices to Web Archives

Classification of the End-of-Term Archive: Extending Collection Development Practices to Web Archives – Findings of the Web Archive Survey of Federal Depository Libraries, December 2010, Revised: January 2011, Kathleen Murray “The Classification of the End-of-Term Archive (EOT Archive) project builds on a previous project1 conducted collaboratively by the Library of Congress, the US Government Printing …

Subjects: E-Government, Knowledge Management, Libraries

"Comité des Sages" calls for a "New Renaissance" by bringing Europe's cultural heritage online

News release: “The report of the Comité des Sages (high-level reflection group) on Digitisation of Europe’s cultural heritage was delivered today to Neelie Kroes, European Commission Vice-President for the Digital Agenda, and Androulla Vassiliou, Commissioner responsible for Education and Culture. The report urges EU Member States to step up their efforts to put online the …

Subjects: E-Government, Knowledge Management, Libraries

Report – Cloud-sourcing Research Collections: Managing Print in the Mass-digitized Library Environment

News release: “This report presents findings from a year-long study designed and executed by OCLC Research, the HathiTrust, New York University’s Elmer Bobst Library, and the Research Collections Access & Preservation (ReCAP) consortium, with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The objective of the project was to examine the feasibility of outsourcing management of …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries

Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books

Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books, Published Online 16 December 2010, Jean-Baptiste Michel et al. Science DOI: 10.1126/science.1199644. “We constructed a corpus of digitized texts containing about 4% of all books ever printed. Analysis of this corpus enables us to investigate cultural trends quantitatively. We survey the vast terrain of culturomics, focusing …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries

Yale Law School Mourns the Death of Professor and Librarian Emeritus Morris L. Cohen

News release: “Yale Law School Professor Emeritus and Librarian Emeritus Morris L. Cohen, who directed two of the worlds most esteemed academic law libraries, passed away Saturday, December 18, 2010, at his home in New Haven. He was 83. Cohen was one of the towering figures of late 20th century law libraries and among the …

Subjects: Legal Research, Libraries

New on LLRX.com – Open Source Tools for Tutorials

LLRX.com – Open Source Tools for Tutorials: Nicole C. Engard continues her series on best practices for libraries to leverage open source tools with a guide on publishing tutorials for using library resources. Rather than creating a printed pathfinder, she suggests creating a video tutorial instead, as the learning experience is often more engaging and …

Subjects: Knowledge Management, Libraries, Marketing

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